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Jan Pasava (SGA Executive Secretary) and Mei-Fu Zhou (SGA Regional Vice President for SGA).

Student volunteers at the closing ceremony

Hartwig Frimmel, SGA President 2006-2007 keeping a watchful eye for new members at the SGA exhibit.

Zhaoshan Chang identifies the giant andradite crystals in the skarn sam-ple that Larry Meinert is holding from near the Anqing deposit in Anhui Province, China during SGA field trip #6.

Some of the students at the conference. Front row. Left to right: Ana Jesus, Ágata Dias and Patrícia Conceição and back row from left to right: Álvaro Pinto, Raul Jorge, Carlos Rosa and Jorge Relvas.

Participants of field trip #6.

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Student volunteers aoutside the Academic Exchange Center of the China University of Geosciences

J. Mao with organizing personnel aoutside the Academic Exchange Center of the China University of Geosciences

J. Mao with student volunteers aoutside the Academic Exchange Center of the China University of Geosciences

SGA members G. Beaudoin, M. Malo, J. Pasava, and A. Cheilletz (left to right)celebrating the end of the SGA Biennial Meeting at the Beijing Duck party together with two Chinese members of the organizing personnel.

Susan Leach (Coordinator of the guest program) and Kayla Martin enjoys a ride in a rickshaw in Beijing’s ancient Hutong neighborhoods.

J. Mao (left) and J. Pasava (middle) with some of the Meeting participants at the Beijing Duck dinner.

SGA News 9 <<<Number 20 March 2006

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Vice-President D. Groves (Australia)

Executive Secretary J. Pasava (Czech Republic)

Treasurer D. Leach (U.S.A.)

Promotion Manager G. Borg (Germany)

MINERALIUM

DEPOSITA Editors B. Lehmann (Germany)

L. Meinert (U.S.A.)

SGA News Editor M. Chiaradia (Switzerland)

Student Represent. A. Vymazalová (Czech Rep.)

Past-President D. Leach (U.S.A.)

Regional Vice-Presidents

Africa J. Moore (S. Africa)

North America G. Beaudoin (Canada)

South America C. Holmgren (Chile)

Asia Mei-Fu Zhou (China)

Australia/Oceania F. Bierlein (Australia)

Middle East M. Yazdi (Iran)

Europe R. Herrington (U.K.)

Councillors: term ending on December 31, 2007

D. Eliopoulos (Greece)

B. Gemmel (Australia)

V. Shatov (Russia)

P. Spry (U.S.A.)

H. Stein (U.S.A.)

F. Tornos (Spain)

Councillors: term ending on December 31, 2009

A. Boyce (U.K.)

S. Diakov (Canada, East Asia)

W. Halter (Switzerland)

J. Mao (China)

J. Relvas (Portugal)

R. Smith (Australia-China)

P. Weihed (Sweden)

Ex officio Members, SEG

President J. Dow (New Zealand)

Executive Director B. G. Hoal (U.S.A.)

Ex officio Members, IAGOD

Secretary General N. Cook (Norway)

Publication Manager R. Seltmann (U.K.)

SGA COUNCIL 2006

LIST OF NEW SGA MEMBERS (APRIL 19, 2005-FEBRUARY 15, 2006)69 Regular Members and 41 Student Members applied for membership from April 19, 2005 to February 15, 2006

REGULAR MEMBERSMr. Santiago GIGOLA Rivadavia 902, esquina Beltran Sur Godoy Cruz 5501 Provincia de Mendoza,

ARGENTINAMr. Gustavo ZULLIGER Rivadavia 902 – Goday Cruz 5501 Mendoza, ARGENTINAMr. Brett BUTLIN 2a Elizabeth Street, South Perth, Western Australia, 6151, AUSTRALIAMr. Michael CAREW 3 Rivoli Crt Dingley, Vic 3172, AUSTRALIADr. Suzanne Dawn GOLDING Dept Earth Sciences, University of QLD, QLD 4072, AUSTRALIADr. Alan GOODE Amira International, Level 2, 271 William st., Melbourne, VIC 2000, AUSTRALIAMr. Roland HILL PO Box 535 Echunga SA 5153, AUSTRALIAMr. Edward HOWARD 3/30 Salvado Road Subiaco, Western Australia 6008, AUSTRALIADr. Roger MUSTARD, 38 Seaward Crescent Townsville , Qld, AUSTRALIAMr. Michael NUGUS 44 Matthews Gose Noranda, Perth WA 6062, AUSTRALIAMr. Paul ROBERTS CSIRO Exploration and Mining, PO Box 1130, Bentely WA 6102, Perth, AUS-

TRALIAMr. Russell SMITS, 30 clunies ross cres Mulgrave Victoria 3170, AUSTRALIAMr. Antony James TRUELOVE 10 Ridgecrest st. Kenmore, QLD 4069, AUSTRALIADr. Victor WALL c/ Taylor Wall and Associates, P.O. Box 921, Spring Hill, Qld., 4004, AUSTRALIADr. Andrew WILDE School of geosciences, Monash University, Wellington Rd, Clayton, Victoria 3800,

AUSTRALIAMr. Clive WILLMAN 41 Happy Valley Road Castlemaine 3450, AUSTRALIADr. Miles WORSLEY “GLENGOWRIE” Nullamanna, N.S.W. 2360, AUSTRALIAMr Michael BUCHANAN 800-700 West Pender Street Vancouver, V6C 1G8, British Columbia, CANA-

DA Dr. Guoxiang CHI Dept of Geology University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 0A2, CANADAMr. Peter DADSON 5954 Signal Ridge Heights SW Calgary, Alberta, T3H 2K1 CANADAMr. Andre GAUTHIER 609 Gronville Street, Suite 1578, Vancouver, CANADAMr. Jamie ROBERTSON, P. Geo. Director Exploration North America, Falconbridge Limited, 3296 Fran-

cis-Hughes Ave, Laval QC, H7L 5A7 CANADADr. Anson XU 3888 Parker st, Burnaby,BC, V5C 3B4, CANADAMr. Eduardo CAMPOS Departamento Ciencias de la Tierra Facultad de Concepcion, Casilla 160-C,

CHILEMs Carmen HOLMGREN Carlos Silva Vidosola 9895 I La Reina Santiago de Chile, CHILEProf. Yanjing CHEN Dept. og Geology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. CHINADr. Sergei DIAKOV East Asia Regional Manager 1203 Tower A, Full Link Plaza, No 18 Beijing 100020,

P. R. CHINA Prof. Shao Yong JIANG Dept. Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, 22 Hankou Road, Nanjing 210093,

Jiangsu province, P. R. CHINAProf. Bo PENG Faculty of Resources and Environment, Hunan Normal University, 36 Lushan Road,

410081 Changsha, P. R. CHINADr. Kezhang QIN P.O. Box 9825, 100029 Beijing, P. R. CHINADr. Wang QINGFEI China University of Geosciences 29 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, P. R. CHINA

AP P L I C A T I O N SA P P L I C A T I O N S to SGA for meeting sponsorship must be submitted to Jan Pasa- to SGA for meeting sponsorship must be submitted to Jan Pasa-va, SGA Executive Secretary, on appropriate forms available at the SGA home page on va, SGA Executive Secretary, on appropriate forms available at the SGA home page on Internet: www.e-sga.orgInternet: www.e-sga.org

Other requests will be not considered.Other requests will be not considered.

Your suggestions and ideas Your suggestions and ideas for any topic of interest to SGA for any topic of interest to SGA are welcome! are welcome! They can be addressed to any Council member or toThey can be addressed to any Council member or to

Dr. Jan PasavaDr. Jan PasavaSGA Executive SecretarySGA Executive Secretary

Czech Geological Survey Tel.: +420 2 5108 5506Czech Geological Survey Tel.: +420 2 5108 5506Klárov 131/3 Fax: +420 2 518 18 748Klárov 131/3 Fax: +420 2 518 18 748CZ-118 21 Prague 1 e-mail: pasava@cgu.czCZ-118 21 Prague 1 e-mail: pasava@cgu.czCzech RepublicCzech Republic

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Dr. Roric SMITH AngloGold Ashanti Beijing Representative Office 2101 China Resources Building, 8 Jianguomenbei Avenue, Beijing, 100005, P. R. CHINA

Prof. Shangguo SU 29 Xueguan Road, Haidian district, Dept. of Geology, China University of Geosciences, 100083 Beijing, P. R. CHINA

Prof. Weidong SUN P.O. Box 1131, Guangzhou Institut of Geochemistry, Guangdong, Guangzhou, P.R. CHINA

Dr. Min WANG Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, CAS Kehua 511, Wush-an, Guangzhou, 510640, P. R. CHINA

Mr. Yunfu WANG Land and Resources of Bureau of Shandong, Huanghe east road, Sacheng district, Zaozhuang, Shandong, P. R. CHINA

Prof. Wenjiao XIAO P.O. Box 9825, Beijing 100029, P. R. CHINAProf. Pu-sheng ZENG Dept. of Resources and Environment, Yunan University

of Finance and Economics, South Longguan Road, Kunming, Yunnan, P. R. CHINA

Prof. Baolin ZHANG 19 Beituchengxilu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, P. R. CHINA

Dr. Xing Chun ZHANG KEY Lab of Ore Deposits Geochemistry, Institute of geochemistry, CAS, 73 Guanshui Road, Guiyang 550002, P. R. CHINA

Dr. Alain COCHERIE, BRGM, 3 avenue C.Guillemin, 45060 Orleans, FRANCE,

Dr. Michel Louis Rene CUNEY BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy, UMR G2R7566 Université Henri Poincaré, FRANCE

Dr. Patrik LEDRU BP 6009, Scientific Division 45060 Orleans Cedex 02, FRANCE

Dr. Hiroyasu MURAKAMI Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Central 7, Higashi I-I-I, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, JAPAN

Mr. Dwayne L. MELROSE Kumtor Operating Company, 24 Ibraimov Street, Bishkek, 720031, KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

Dr. Michael CAREW Ivanhoe Mines, Gobi House, Khan Uul District, Orgil Khotkhou, Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA

Mr. Bruce BELL, 83 Fisher Parade, Sunnyhills Manukau 1706, NEW ZEA-LAND

Dr. Robert L. BRATHWAITE, GNS Science PO Box 30368 Lower Hutt, NEW ZEALAND

Mr. Norm CORNER, PO Box 952 Wellington 6015, NEW ZELANDDr. David CRAW, Geology Dept, Univ og Otago PO Box 56 Dunedon, NEW

ZEALANDDr. Kevin FAURE Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, 30 Gracefield

Rd/ PO Box 31 312, Lower Hutt, NEW ZELANDDr. Alex MALAHOFF Chief Executive GNS Science PO Box 30368 Lower

Hutt Wellington, NEW ZEALANDDr. Greg PARTINGTON Kenex Knowledge Systems Ltd Ballinger Gardens,

39B Oroua St, PO Box 41136 Eastbourne, Wellington, NEW ZEALANDMr. John TAYLOR, PO Box 8 Reefton, NEW ZEALANDDr. Samuel OLOBANIYI Dept. og Geology, Delta State University, Abraka,

NIGERIAMr. Jackeline PEREZ Sociedad Minera El Brocal S.A.A., Av. Faustino Sanchez

Carrlon 451, San Isidro, Lima 27, PERUDr. Jadwiga PIECZONKA AGH University of Science and Technology, av

Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Krakow, POLANDMr. Hans ISAKSOON GeoVista AB P.O.Box 276 SE – 97108 Lulea, SWE-

DENDr. Martin SMITH The School of the Environment, Cockcroft Building, Moul-

secoomb, Brighton BN2 4GJ, UKMrs. Dona DIRLAM GIA 5345 Armada Drive Carlsbad, CA 92008, USADr. Poul EMSBO MS 973, Box 25046 Denver Fed. Cent., Denver, CO 80225,

USAMr. Jason KRUSZEWSKI 645 West Pullman Road, Apt # 213, Moscow, ID

83843 USAProf. Peter LARSON Dept of Geology Washington State University Pullman

WA 99164-2812 USAMr. Mark PFAU Chief Geologist 3275 Terrace Drive Missoula, Montana 59803,

USADr. Brian RUSK USGS, Denver Federal Center, Building 21 MS 963, USADr. Alexander SKEWES Research Assosiate Dept of Geological Sciences Uni-

versity of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309-0399 USADr. Stephen TURNER 250 West Jamison Circle #24, Littleton, Colorado 80120,

USA

Dr. Yongljang XIONG SANDIA National Laboratories, Carlsbad, NM 882 20, USA,

Prof. Dr. Rustam KONEYEV VUZ Gorodok National University of Uzbekistan 700174 Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN

STUDENT MEMBERSMiss Katherine BASSANO 45 Jamieson Street North Fitzroy Melbourne 3064,

AUSTRALIAMs Megan HOUGH School of Geoscience, Monash University Victoria 3800,

AUSTRALIAMr. Michiel VAN DONGEN School of Geosciences Monash University 3800

Victoria, AUSTRALIAMiss Kateřina HOLENDOVÁ Pivovarská 132 261 01 Příbram, CZECH RE-

PUBLICMr. Jiří KOPÁČ Strážovská 431/75 153 00 Praha-Radotín, CZECH REPUB-

LICMr. Rik SNEEP Vinkendaal 2, 2914 EN Nieuwerkerk a/d Ijssel, THE NETH-

ERLANDSMiss Pilar MOREIRA Calle 7 Nro 1209 Depto 8A, La Plata, ARGENTINAMr. Sebastian JOVIC Calle 64 e/ 120 Y 121, La Plata, Buenos Aires, ARGEN-

TINAMr. David BRAXTON 690 Summerleas Rd., Fesn Tree, Tasmania 7054, AUS-

TRALIAMiss Laura Ann May FRANKCOMBE, PO Box 85 Wynyard Tas 7325, AUS-

TRALIAMr. Sean McCLENAGHAN University of New Brunswick, Dept of Geology,

P.O.Box 4400, Fredericton NB, E3B5A3, CANADAMr. Furic RENAN 4690 Bourbonniere 7 Montreal Qc H1X 2M5, CANADAMr. Javier ORTUZAR Ignacio Carrera Pinto 114-B, depto. 201, ÑUÑOA (NU-

NOA), Santiago, CHILEMr. Ying CUI c/o Su Shang guo China University of Geosciences, 29 Xueyuan

Road, Haidian district, Beijing 100083, P. R. CHINAMr. Jianjing GAO China University of Geosciences, Class S00401, 29 Xueyuan

Road, Haidian district, Beijing 100083, P. R. CHINAMr. Baojian GUO 107 Zhongyuan Road, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province,

450052, P. R. CHINAMr. Ye HUISHOU Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy og Geo-

logical Science, Beijing 100037, P. R. CHINAMr. Li LI Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Science 26 Bai-

wanzhuang Rd, Beijing 100037, P. R. CHINAMr. Mengwen LI 29 Xueyuan Road, Haidian district, 100083 Beijing, P. R.

CHINAMr. Yan LIU China University of Geosciences, 29 Xueyuan Road, Haidian

district, Beijing 100083, P. R. CHINAMr. Ping XIAO c/o Su Shang guo China University of Geosciences, 29 Xueyuan

Road, Haidian district, Beijing 100083, P. R. CHINAMr. Lingang XU China University of Geosciences, Xue Yuan Road 29, Beijing

100083, P. R. CHINAMs. Ljuan YING China University of Geosciences, class S00411, 29 Xueyuan

Road, Haidiandistrict, Beijing 100083, P. R. CHINAMr. Bo WAN Institute of Geology and Geophysics CAS, Huozi 19, Chao Yang

district, Qi Jia, Beijing, P. R. CHINAMr. Changging ZHANG Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of

Science 26 Baiwanzhuang Rd,Beijing 100037, P. R. CHINAMr. Johan TUDURI Residence les Chenes, 1 rue Jules Favre, 45 100 Orleans,

FRANCEMr. Akwinga Victor ASAAH Technical University of Clausthal Institute of

Mineralogy and Mineral ResourcesAdolph-Roemer Str. 2A Clausthal-Zellerfeld, GERMANYMr. Amin ESLAMI Dept. of Earth Sciences, College of Sciences, Shiraz Uni-

versity, Shiraz, IRANMr. Movahedi MEHRDAD Shahid Beheshty University, Iran-Tehran-Farjan e

Sharghi-Baradaran, E Shahid Monamad Bagheri St., Ahadzadeh St. No. 96, IRAN

Mr. Hadi Shafaii MOGHADAM Earth Sciences Faculty, Shahid Beheshti Uni-versity Evin, Tehran, IRAN

Mr. Joseph ESPI University of Tsukuba Institute of Geoscience, 1-1-1, Tenno-Dai Tsokuba, Ibaraki, 305-8572, JAPAN

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News of the Society

Ms. SURYANTINI Geothermic Laboratory, Dept. of Earth Resource Enginer-ing, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki Higashiku, Fukuoka-Shi, 8128581, JAPAN

Mr. SYAFRIZAL Dept. of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-10-1, Hakozaki, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka-Shi, 812-8581, JAPAN

Mr. Marco Antonio Rubio RAMOS Flor Silvestre 22, Col San Pedro Martir Del. Tlalpan, Mexico, D.F., 14650, MEXICO

Miss Irina ESIPOVA Novosmolenskaya str. 1 – 734 199 397 St Petersburg, RUSSIA

Miss Nadezhda GUSEVA Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology RAS Makarova emb. 2 199 034 St Petersburg, RUSSIA

Mr. Jorge CARRIEDO Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana C/Azafranal N 48 1 37001 Salamanca, SPAIN

Mr. Anges MARKOWSKI, Institute for Isotope geology and Mineral deposits Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092 Zurich, SWITZERLAND

Ms. Adriana HEIMANN 253 Science I, Iowa State University Geological and Atm. Sciences, Ames Iowa 50011-3212, USA

Ms. Jessica HORWITZ 242 Pemberton Hall 1521 S 4th St Charleston IL 61920, USA

SPONSORED MEMBERSHIP 2004-2005Prof. Salah BOUHLEL Labo de Metallogenie, Departement de Geologie Fac-

ulte des Sciences de Tunis 5500 Mendoza, 2092 El Manar Tunis, TUNISIA

News of the Council

Report of the President (D. Leach)D. Leach reported on the period from the last Council Meeting (Au-gust 2005), which was mostly devoted to various issues related to the Beijing meeting. Then he thanked the Council for active colla-boration on SGA matters during his presidential term. The Council highly appreciated his outstanding performance as SGA President.

Status of revisions to the SGA document “Organizing a SGA Bi-ennial Meeting” (D. Leach)D. Leach informed Council about his ongoing work on a revision to the “Guide to organizing a biennial meeting – which will inclu-de requirements for recognition of session leaders, reviewers, and selection of the editors for the proceedings. The document should be completed in about 2 months.

Report of the Executive Secretary (J. Pasava) J. Pasava reported on new memberships from August 16, 2005 to December 6, 2005 and other administrative activities associated with his position (various correspondence with IUGS, SGA mem-bers, SEG, IAGOD, UNESCO and other agencies). He also infor-med Council members that the SGA Historical Archive received from Dr. L. Weber (Austria) turned out to be a part of membership archive without any founding documents. He also prepared the 2005 Annual Report for IUGS.

Report of the Treasurer (P. Herzig) P. Herzig reported on results of the recent audit of SGA financial reports for 2003-2005. The Council expressed great appreciation for his more than 10 year’s of hard work that resulted in the healthy financial situation of the Society. The financial report for 2005 will be submitted to the next SGA Council meeting.

Report of the Chief Editors, MD (B. Lehmann, L. Meinert) B. Lehmann informed the Council about the 6 month-delayed schedule in printing MD, which resulted from changes in Springer administrative and editorial staff as well as the reduction of accep-table manuscripts. To date 5 issues were printed and the next issue (double 6/7 with 150 pages) will be printed in early January 2006. It is expected that the printing schedule will be back on track during spring 2006. In addition, the total number of pages annually has been revised so that in the future Mineralium Deposita will have 900 pages each year. The Council thanked the Chief Editors for their efforts.

Reports of Regional VPs Updates on activities were received from RVPs for Australia/Ocea-nia, Europe and North America.SGA Council then discussed various issues related to RVPs reports and approved the following:-to not go for deals offered by Publishers that are not willing to reduce prices of past SGA proceedings volumes,-to use these volumes only for display at meetings to document what SGA does,-to offer available sets of Proceedings from Athens (2003) for USD 90 and Proceedings from Beijing (2005) for 130 USD at various SGA organized and/or sponsored meetings-to send several reminders about SGA membership fee payments -to introduce the following late SGA membership fee payments:New prices (EUR)By January 31 After January 31Regular 65 80Senior 45 50 Student 10 15Corporate 200 200

Council thanked all RVPs and approved their reports with great appreciation.

Suggested changes in the nominating procedure for SGA offi-cers (H. Frimmel)H. Frimmel presented a proposal for changes in the nomination procedure for candidates for SGA officers. After discussion the Council approved unanimously the following:

-changes in Article III - Section 1 (By-laws), which now reads:Section 1- NominationThe Nominating Committee shall, during the first year of tenure of the President, ask Council and the membership at large for sug-gestions pertaining to the nomination of candidates for each office to be filled, and transmit its nominations to the Secretary prior to February 1 of the following year. Nominees must have shown their commitment to, and interest in, the Society prior to their nominati-on, e.g. through membership of SGA. Any member may nominate other members for an elective office provided such nomination shall have been endorsed by the signature of twenty-five (25) or more members and shall have been received in writing by the Secretary prior to February 1 of the second year of tenure of the President. The Secretary will within one month submit in writing the nominations to the Council for approval. In the case of one or more nomination(s) not having received approval, the Nominating Committee, in consultation with Council, must provide alternative nominations to be decided upon and approved by Council prior to

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CHANGE OF ADDRESS FORM

If you have changed (or will change in the near future) your address please fill in this form and send it to:

David Leach, SGA Treasurer - U.S. Geological Survey

MS 973, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center

Denver CO 80225 USA

e-mail: DLeach5100@aol.com

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July 1 of the second year of tenure of the President.

-creation of the Admission Committee (J. Pasava-chair, T. Graupner, S. Hagemann, E. Ronacher, A. Vymazalova), the Finance Committee (P. Herzig-chair), and the Pro-gram Committee (Rich Goldfarb – chair, Adrian Boyce, Frank Bierlein, Gerry Stan-ley, Colin Andrew).

Progress report on the preparation of the 9th SGA Biennial Meetings 2007 (G. Stanley)The last progress report was presented by G. Stanley and the leaflet – 1st announce-ment for the 9th SGA Biennial Meeting was distributed to all 8th SGA Meeting participants in August 2005 in Beijing. The electronic version of this document is available at the conference website www.conferencepartners.ie/sga2007. Proposals for the 10th SGA Biennial Mee-

tings in 2009 (Australia and Chile)Council received two high level proposals – one from Australian group and the se-cond one from Chilean group. After a long discussion Council decided to postpone the final decision on the 2009 venue of the 10th SGA Biennial Meeting to the next Council meeting (spring 2006). The Council appre-ciated a high quality of both proposals and decided to ask both groups for some additi-onal information.

SGA-SRG collaboration update (J. Pašava)J. Pasava reported on exchange with re-presentatives of the Society for Resource Geology. Both Societies will look for op-portunities for closer collaboration in the future.

SGA-SEG-IAGOD contribution towards IUGS/UN activities (IYPE) – J. Pašava and D. LeachJ. Pašava informed about the status of a revised joint SGA-IAGOD-SEG proposal,

which was submitted to both IUGS grant competition and also to ICSU grant com-petition through IUGS at the end of 2004. To date, no official reply has been received either from IUGS or ICSU despite a remin-der from SGA Executive Secretary. A letter from the chair of the management team of the IYPE, Ed de Mulder was received and discussed. Council decided to include all major SGA events during 2007-2009 under IYPE umbrella.

Report on the modification of SGA websi-te (G. Beaudoin et al.)G. Beaudoin reported on the results of a call for proposals for the modification and maintenance of the SGA website. The Council highly appreciated efforts of the website committee and authorized G. Be-audoin to negotiate with SYS-TECH and Intellogix a possible contract for hosting and upgrade of the website for 5 years. The final results should be presented at the next Council meeting.